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Colouring books printed on proper colouring paper. Adult, children's and personalised colouring books from 10 copies, single-sided printing available.
A colouring book lives or dies on its paper. Print line art on thin coated stock and felt tips bleed through, pencils skate instead of biting, and the finished page ripples. Most print-on-demand platforms give you exactly that — their standard book paper, take it or leave it — which is why so many independent colouring books disappoint the people who buy them.
We print colouring books on paper chosen for colouring: heavy uncoated stocks from 100 to 170gsm with enough tooth for pencil and enough body for pens. Single-sided printing so bleed-through never ruins the next design. Perfect bound for retail, or wire-O so the book lies dead flat on the table — which is where colouring actually happens. From 10 copies, with the same production whether it’s a market-stall run or a retail line.
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Adult colouring books, mindfulness and pattern collections sold on Etsy, at fairs and direct. Retail-grade covers, ISBN barcoding, short runs that reprint as they sell.
Colouring and activity books for young colourers — heavier paper that survives enthusiasm, larger trim sizes, wipe-clean laminated covers.
Branded colouring books for cafes, attractions, museums and campaigns. Custom trim sizes, logo covers, runs from 50 to the thousands.
Mindfulness colouring, therapy and community workbooks. Lay-flat wire-O binding, single-sided printing, calm uncoated stocks.
Colouring books are mono interiors on uncoated paper, so they price kindly. The rows below show typical retail specs at live prices. Get an exact quote for your page count and paper.
| Format | Specification | Quantity | Per copy |
|---|---|---|---|
A4 colouring book |
96pp mono · perfect bound · 100gsm opaque |
50 | £3.91per copy |
A4 colouring book |
96pp mono · perfect bound · 100gsm opaque |
250 | £2.71per copy |
A5 travel colouring book |
96pp mono · perfect bound · 100gsm opaque |
100 | £2.04per copy |
Prices include UK delivery, exclude VAT. For the full UK book printing prices across paperback and hardback at every quantity tier, see our pricing page — or get an exact quote for your spec →
Build the spec, see the price live. No account required, no email gate — just an instant figure based on what you actually want.
Pick size, pages, paper weight and quantity — prices calculate live across run sizes.
Print-ready PDF with your line art at 300 DPI — the free file check flags low-res linework before it prints fuzzy.
Digital proof of cover and sample pages — check line weight and margins at actual size.
Crisp mono linework printed in Exeter on uncoated stocks with real tooth.
Perfect bound or wire-O assembled in-house, covers laminated, trimmed square.
Shrink-wrapped in fair-table counts and dispatched via DPD.
100–120gsm uncoated for pencil and fineliner books — enough tooth for pencils to bite and enough opacity to keep designs separate. If your audience uses markers or felt tips, go 150–170gsm and print single-sided — no paper fully stops alcohol markers bleeding through, so a blank back is the honest fix. Avoid coated (gloss/silk) stock entirely: pencil barely marks it.
Yes — single-sided printing (design on the right, blank verso) is the professional colouring-book standard and we recommend it for anything aimed at pen users. It roughly doubles the sheet count for the same number of designs, which the live quote prices transparently.
Perfect bound for retail — a printable spine that shelves and photographs like a proper book. Wire-O for usability — the book lies completely flat and folds back on itself, which colourers genuinely prefer. Plenty of creators run both: perfect bound for shops, wire-O as a premium “deluxe” edition.
Adult colouring books cluster at 50–100 designs; children’s at 30–60. Printed single-sided that’s roughly 100–200 pages. Under about 48 pages a perfect-bound spine gets too thin to print on — saddle-stitching or wire-O handles slim activity books better.
Yes — that’s most of what we print. You keep all rights and all margin; we add an ISBN barcode free if you supply the number. Unlike KDP and other POD platforms (whose paper is wrong for colouring anyway), there’s no platform between you and your buyer.
Yes — books with a child’s name in the title or woven into designs are a lovely product and print exactly like any other short run. For one-off gift copies the economics work at 10 copies; for name-per-copy retail products, ask us about versioned covers.
Allow 5–10 working days from proof approval — mono interiors keep colouring books at the quick end of that range. Fair or launch deadline? Tell us before you order and we’ll confirm it’s makeable before you commit.
Yes — order a free sample pack to feel the uncoated stocks and check how your pens behave on them before committing a run.
Can’t find your answer? See our 73-question book printing FAQ for detail on file prep, binding, paper, turnaround and shipping.
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